I wrote last year about the likelihood that we’ll be seeing right wing movements in Europe, as the bankers put the screws to the common folks so they can preserve their own privileges. Since the Greeks are getting screwed the most, it only stands to reason that it’s most likely, especially given recent Greek history, that the movement would start there, and if it didn’t start there, it’s apparently blossoming in the cradle of democracy:
Emboldened by its meteoric rise in Greece, the far-right Golden Dawn party is spreading its tentacles abroad, amid fears it is acting on its pledge to “create cells in every corner of the world”. The extremist group, which forged links with British neo-Nazis when it was founded in the 1980s, has begun opening offices in Germany, Australia, Canada and the US.
The international push follows successive polls that show Golden Dawn entrenching its position as Greece’s third, and fastest growing, political force. First catapulted into parliament with 18 MPs last year, the ultra-nationalists captured 11.5% support in a recent survey conducted by polling company Public Issue.
The group – whose logo resembles the swastika and whose members are prone to give Nazi salutes – has gone from strength to strength, promoting itself as the only force willing to take on the “rotten establishment”. Amid rumours of backing from wealthy shipowners, it has succeeded in opening party offices across Greece.
(via The Guardian)
If we learn nothing from history, and we always do, we will ignore this nascent movement until it’s too late. But then, from the banker’s point of view, it’s all good. The demagogues on the right talk a good game on the way up, but once they take over, they’ll be the banker’s friend, maybe even more than the corrupt so-called “democratic” regimes in Europe that have been selling out their people for the past several years. It’s win-win for the banks, and lose-lose for the rest of us, but that’s nothing new.
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